Where does the problem lie with regard to Sabarimala? Crowd accommodation absent, only control measures set in motion

As is their wont, the police department, the forest department and Travancore Devaswom Board have filed their reports to Kerala High Court regarding the Pullumedu tragedy in which 102 pilgrims were killed in stampede. No one could prevent the tragedy.

The police deparment justified its position, the forest department too did the same, however the devaswom board blamed both the departments and at the same time it washed its hands off any wrong-doing.

Did anyone commit any wrong-doing. No one willfully did anything, but the problem is the unwieldy crowds at places connected with Lord Ayyappa which are too congested and incapable of developing into facilities that can accommodate such gigantic crowds.
In future, this problem would further aggravate, unless entrance and exit facilities are enlarged on a substantial scale. Now what is being done is to control the crowds. Tigers and Elephants get better attention than the pilgrims in the place which is controlled by the forest department.

Without sanctioning a substantial extent of land now with the forest department, removing tigers and elephants from the area being sanctiond, and developing facilities to accommodate the surging crowds of pilgrims, there can be no way of preventing such tragedies. All other efforts would be just a tinkering process.

Now the court has asked the Travancore Devaswom Board whether the Makara Vilakku is man-made or celestially occurring. What is the difference between the Makara Vilakku and Makara Jyoti?

Now the court can ask the board to do a little bit of reality campaigning about the Makara Vilakku being a human-lit light. Most of the pilgrims from outside the State come here with the impression that the Makara Vilakku is celestial light. The board can take some simple measures by way of propagation that Makara Vilakku is man-made and not celestial. Only the board can do so, otherwise the exercise would be misinterpreted.